lifesong
Everyone needs compassion
And love that never fails
Let mercy fall on me
When everyone needs forgiveness
Kindness of the Saviour
The Hope of the nation
Saviour, He can move the mountains
My God is mighty to save
He is mighty to save
Forever author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave
So take me as you find me
All my fears and failures
Fill my life again
I give my life to follow
Everything that i believe in
Now i surrender
Shine a light in and
let the whole world see
Singing, for the glory of the risen king
Jesus, Shine a light and
let the whole world see
Singing for the glory of the risen king
Monday, October 16, 2006
-1:51 PM
everyone remembers where you were when 911 occured. but where were the day after 911? how did you feel? i remember when i was in P1, watching the news on TV. i didn't know what's happening. what i did know was a huge number of people are going to die. the day after, i had this feeling of deseolation, of hopelessness. little did i know that God had actually planned this.
let me show u something. u dont need to believe it. im jus illustrating a point.
so what's my point? the enemy was behind the attacks. he wanted to demoralise the world. he wanted people to start blaming God. he wanted people to say," What kind of God could allow such a thing to happen?" But God had other plans.
in the video, did you see what the firemen saw? no? well, they saw a cross. standing upright. now what are the chances of a steel girder, falling from a few hundrew metres, and landing upright? it's a miracle. from that day, it had become a refuge for the workers, and a safe place for a city deeply traumatized by such an incomprehensible tragedy. It had become a place where men could go to find peace in the midst of the senseless maelstrom that surrounded them. This naked steel girder cross became for many, a shelter in the midst of a storm. Men prayed there. They looked for answers to the uncertainties and tragedies of life. They took account of their own lives. They looked to the One who hung on a cross so many years ago, and found refuge in the steadfast arms of Jesus. He was the One who made sense out of an Old Rugged Cross. Perhaps He could make sense out of this one.
if u read Revelations, God says he's going to release judgement unto the world. it is pretty much the same for this. Satan saw this as a way of weakening the world. God saw way beyond this. that's why he planted the Cross in the midst of that darkness.
Yet, this cross symbolizes God's call and love for America, and the world for that matter. He is calling us to "repent, for the kingdom of God is near". my principal, Ms Lim, keeps saying that "it doesn't matter whether u are Christian, buddhist, taoist, muslim or hindu; u still have a god". still obviously doesn't read, or understand, the Bible. For Jesus says, "I am the Way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."[John 14:6] God loved the world so much, he didn't just dumped them aside. he wanted them. the 911 was a wake-up call, repent, repent.
"This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel says: 'In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it…Therefore you will flee…till you are left like a flagstaff on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill." [Isaiah 30:15-18]
God loves you. Repent.
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911 also showed me one thing: my God is alive. The one thing that survived the mass of carnage and steel when the towers collapsed was this magnificent, albeit twisted, steel girder cross. It was a sign that when everything falls apart, and the foundations are shaken, we can be sure that God is still on the throne.
"Saviour, he can move the mountains. My God is mighty to save, he is mighty to save."
this song showed me that God can save you. he can heal you. but there is one condition.
"If My people, who are called by My name will HUMBLE THEMSELVES AND PRAY AND SEEK MY FACE, then will I hear from heacen...forgive their sin and HEAL THEIR LAND." [2 Chronicles 7:14]
that's powerful. God will heal us. there is no mountain to tall God cannnot move.
"'My grace is sufficient for you, my power is made perfect in weakness.'".[2 Corinthians 12:9]
"The Lord your God is with you. He is MIGHTY TO SAVE." [Zephaniah 3:7]
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so this is my final point: in the midst of this darkness, there is a hope a light that burns. the hope is in the cross.
